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Ernie Andrews
American singer
1
Louis Hayes
American drummer
2
The Three Sounds
American jazz piano trio
3
Marvin Smith
American musician
4
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
5
Roland Hanna
American pianist
6
Jack McDuff
American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader
7
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
8
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
9
Nat Adderley
American recording artist; jazz cornet and trumpet player
10
Rickey Woodard
American jazz musician
11
Phil Woods
American saxophonist
12
Jeff Hamilton
American musician
13
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
14
Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
15
Chuck Redd
American musician
16
Ernie Royal
American jazz trumpeter
17
Ernestine Anderson
American jazz and blues singer
18
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
19
Scott Hamilton
American musician
20
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
21
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
22
James Clay
American musician
23
Monty Alexander
Jamaican pianist
24
George Duvivier
American musician
25
Herb Ellis
American jazz guitarist
26
Eddie Bert
American musician
27
Milt Jackson
American musician
28
Paul Humphrey
American musician
29
David "Fathead" Newman
American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist
30
Benny Green
American musician
31
Geoffrey Keezer
American musician
32
Joe Newman
American musician
33
James Williams
American jazz pianist
34
Percy Heath
American musician
35
Roy Campbell, Jr.
American trumpeter (1952-2014)
36
Butch Miles
American jazz drummer
37
Kenny Werner
American jazz pianist, composer, and author
38
Johnny Griffin
American musician
39
George Coleman
American musician
40
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
41
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
42
Walter Booker
American jazz double-bassist
43
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
44
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
45
Roy McCurdy
jazz drummer
46
Herbie Lewis
American musician
47
Bill Dowdy
American musician
48
Barney Kessel
American jazz guitarist
49
Al Grey
American jazz musician
50
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
51
Gil Goldstein
American jazz pianist and accordionist
52
Randy Brecker
American flugelhorn and trumpet player (1945-)
53
Red Rodney
American musician
54
John Patitucci
American jazz bassist and composer
55
Harry Edison
American trumpeter
56
Joe Sample
American pianist
57
Mary Stallings
American singer
58
Bobby Bryant
American trumpeter
59
Steve Wilson
American jazz musician
60
Bill Ramsay
American jazz saxophonist & bandleader
61
Howard Alden
American jazz guitarist
62
Brian Blade
American jazz musician
63
Rufus Reid
American musician
